Pandemic? What flu pandemic?

Slowly, some in the media are beginning to realize there wasn’t a flu pandemic.

The 2009 swine flu pandemic may turn out to be the weakest in history. It is spreading more slowly than expected and the latest figures show a flattening, or even a dip, in new infections. It is mild in most people but severe in a few and, while it readily infects children, it appears to spare the elderly. With the vaccine being rolled out, its impact should be further curbed.

So far in the UK, 154 people have died from the virus, around half of whom were under 45. In addition, 1,431 were admitted to hospital with swine flu last week. But in comparison with previous pandemics – or even seasonal flu epidemics – this is a relatively low toll.

It amazes me just how gullible and ill informed the average US citizen is, and how they’ll line up like sheep and let some government bureaucrat inject them without knowing what’s in the vaccine or even the reason for taking the vaccine in the first place.

But in the end of this so-called “pandemic,” this is what we have to show for all of the hype: the drug companies got billions of tax dollars world-wide; the government media complex promulgated the propaganda raising the level of hysteria and also reaped millions in advertisement revenue; elected officials spent the billions of dollars from the over-taxed citizenry and tallied up political gain for the next election; and all the while the citizenry went blindly along, and yet there was no threat, there was no pandemic.

Well I hope you are ready for more of these little episodes created by the US Government’s Theater of the Bizarre, because the only way they’ll be able to keep this fascist government mandated health care relevant, while they spend the money we don’t have, will be to seasonally create another episode of high anxiety. Next season Antarctic penguin flu! This should really get the soccer moms all up in a tizzy . I can’t wait.

Police Prepare Drill for Plague at School

I have to wonder, when is the public going to realize that all the hype the Department of Homeland Security stirs up is just that, hype. This country is amidst a recession and this city in Illinois is having a military style exercise encompassing a “plague.” How much did that cost the taxpayer?

Citizens infected with a fictitious pneumonic plague will line up outside Lincoln Prairie Elementary School on Saturday to help test the site as a medication dispensary in case of an emergency.

The Lake in the Hills Police Department is carrying out the test as part of a grant from the McHenry County Department of Health for its emergency health plan. In case of a biological terrorist attack or widespread disease outbreak, the site would be able get medicine to the community, Lake in the Hills Chief of Patrol Services David Brey said.

“This is just a functional test of the site,” he said.

The event will use volunteers pretending to have been stricken by the plague to help test the flow of the site, from initial triage through receiving proof of being medicated.

“We picked the plague on purpose so it would have nothing to do with the swine flu,” Brey said.

Please, this stuff is as useful as playing a round of Dungeon and Dragons…it’s all fiction. At this point I’d expect Nancy Pelosi to fly in to the Illinois town on one of her new acquired Congressional helicopters (Congress One). She could hold a news conference drawing attention to the factoid that a government mandated health care system would do a better job of taking care of the people after “a biological terrorist attack or widespread disease outbreak” than the private sector.

Artificial scarcity and the anatomy of the 2009 swine flu pandemic

Thanks to the good folks at the Ohio Freedom Alliance.

Here’s a small snippet from the Live Leaks site:

This video exposes how the corporate health industry met at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and expressed concern that Americans are refusing the unpopular H1N1 swine flu vaccines.

This video also documents the strong case that the media is hyping an artificial scarcity of the vaccine to trick concerned parents into lining up like cattle for the flu shot.

Five minutes into this recording a participant recommends lying to the public to get them to take the shot. (Are you getting the picture?)

Note: I had trouble embedding the video; go to this link to listen to the conference.

Germany’s Merkel Calls for US to Give Up Sovereignty

Last year when Barrack Obama won the Democrat Party’s nomination for president he went to Berlin to announce his victory. And now almost a year later Germany’s Chancellor Merkel comes to the United States demanding capitulation from the American people. Is any of this starting to add up to you?

In a speech to a joint session of Congress this morning, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Congress that there was “no time to lose” in the fight against global warming. “We need an agreement at the climate conference in December in Copenhagen,” she said. “That requires the readiness of all countries to accept binding international commitments.”

Binding international commitments means one thing, giving up our sovereignty.

Our founding fathers told us through their writings to steer clear of European entanglements. We do not require any agreements with them now or in the future for that matter. We mustn’t get involved with this madness. This is our sovereignty, our ability to govern our own country, not any global community Merkel, or for that matter Obama, represents. We, the US citizenry, govern our own country.

Judge Napolitano on Forced Vaccinations in Massachusetts

Key actors in climate change are cows, pigs and chickens, so says the Left

I’ve written here a few days ago that no matter how the citizens of Ohio vote on Issue 2, Ohio’s small and mid size farmers will be screwed. The biggest threat in my opinion is not from Big Agro, but from the environmental eugenicist leftists called HSUS and PETA. Don’t get me wrong for one minute, the reason we have synthetic food, animals being fed fecal matter, and a huge obesity problem resulting from corn based food is because of Big Agro. But around the corner are the environmental eugenicist leftists whose demented religion is based upon ridding the earth of humans. You think I’m wrong, well check out what these crack pots from the Worldwatch Institute have to say:

The environmental impact of the lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food has been vastly underestimated, and in fact accounts for at least half of all human-caused greenhouse gases (GHGs), according to Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang, co-authors of “Livestock and Climate Change”.

A widely cited 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Livestock’s Long Shadow, estimates that 18 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions are attributable to cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, pigs, and poultry. But recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang finds that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions.

Well it seems that humans aren’t quite as bad as we thought. We only cause 49 percent of the worldwide GHG emissions; it turns out it’s those pesky animals causing all the problems.

Well here’s an easy solution to save Mudda Earth, kill all the animals and then wait for the humans to die from malnutrition. After that little statement I won’t be surprised if I get an application for the WWF or Sierra Club in the mail asking me to join.

Carbon credits for having fewer children?

Ok, lets talk eugenics, the environmental left and carbon credits for a minute, or better yet, lets see what left has to say about the matter:

Countries like Brazil, Ecuador and Papua New Guinea are asking for financial compensation to address deforestation, and now Saudi Arabia wants compensation if countries reduce their oil consumption to mitigate climate change. Is it entirely far fetched to ask if individuals should be compensated for having fewer or no children?

At a Wilson Center discussion on Wednesday, New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin considered this idea and stated that having fewer children was one of the best ways that individuals could reduce their carbon footprints. Humans reproduce exponentially, and having two children instead of three could reduce energy consumption that would otherwise occur for generations. A report by Paul Murtaugh PDF from the University of Oregon found that the “carbon legacy” of having an extra child is twenty times more important than other choices individuals take over their lifetime (such as what kind of transportation they use, for example.) In the United States, a child has 160 times the carbon impact than a child born in Bangladesh, according to Murtaugh.

It’s all about eugenics and the left ridding the world of their natural enemy, the human being.

Swedes to Stop Eating to Cut Global Warming

Here’s one of those news stories that really highlights the fact that leftists truly have some type of mental illness. Read this and ask yourself, are these people for real?

Shopping for oatmeal, Helena Bergstrom, 37, admitted that she was flummoxed by the label on the blue box reading, “Climate declared: .87 kg CO2 per kg of product.”

“Right now, I don’t know what this means,” said Ms. Bergstrom, a pharmaceutical company employee.

But if a new experiment here succeeds, she and millions of other Swedes will soon find out. New labels listing the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the production of foods, from whole wheat pasta to fast food burgers, are appearing on some grocery items and restaurant menus around the country.

People who live to eat might dismiss this as silly. But changing one’s diet can be as effective in reducing emissions of climate-changing gases as changing the car one drives or doing away with the clothes dryer, scientific experts say.

 

It’s all about eugenics…

Issue 2 Town Hall was a Great Success

From the good folks at The Ohio Liberty Counsel:

Note: I am having some difficulty embedding the video. Please click on the link to see the Town Hall.

Issue 2: Either Way the Farmer Loses

I spotted this snippet today on Progress Ohio toward the end of a post supporting Issue 2, which truly made me depressed.

Agriculture is Ohio’s largest industry and proper regulation is necessary, however, the creation of a new political board with broad powers and backed by agri-business is not in the best interests of the citizens of Ohio. (SH: But PETA and HSUS are?)

Agriculture has existed in Ohio for at least 200 years without a standards board bureaucracy. Moreover the Ohio Legislature and State Board of Agriculture has the authority to negotiate with animal rights groups and implement prudent changes. (SH: Is this a good idea? Why is our General Assembly negotiating with these fringe radicals in the first place…but oh yes, it was our worthless General Assembly that put the farmer and the citizen in this position in the first place!)

The Humane Society has stated that they will attempt to impose restrictions on farms with or without Issue 2. (SH: Impose; Hitler and Stalin imposed many draconian laws too, but the last time I checked HSUS is just a special interest group.) If the purpose of Issue 2 is to mitigate potential reforms from the Humane Society, it’s a waste of time and energy. (SH: Wow, maybe the State AG should consider applying an Ohio version of the Rico Statute against HSUS.)

Ohio Farmers know their craft and I think they are willing to work with animal rights and public health groups to address any potential areas for improvement. (SH: Why do we have to work with anybody but the consumer? How is working with some nut cases that elevate animals above humans going to make me a better farmer?)

Please join me the Ohio Liberty Council, the Ohio Sierra Club and the Ohio Farmers Union in voting NO on Issue 2. (SH: Boy, this guy almost convinced this traditional conservative to vote for Issue 2 after all of that BS.)

Either way, if Issue 2 passes or fails, the statist is out there ready to place some sort of control on our, the farmers, life. So either way the Ohio farmer loses, and in the end the Ohio consumer loses too.

Update: Check out this post, Why Issue 2 Can’t Stop the HSUS, it should make you mad as it did me, if of course you are concerned about freedom and liberty, and not control.